Fix social links

Your blog should be functional and working at this point, but social links are not like you would expect them to.

The shares are not like they used to. There is no excerpt or pictures automatically added when you share on twitter or facebook.

Right now, it is just a link, which looks rather dull. This is how you want your links to appear like automatically:

To solve this, you need to add some metadata to the HTML “head” tag. This will probably be in a file called “head.html” in your “_includes” folder (I say probably, because it might depend on your setup and theme).

You can of course hard-code this into the head.html file, but since we are good developers, we pull this kind of stuff into our configuration.
Many of these configurations should be reused other places, after all.

I suggest that you try to configure as much of this as you can in your _config.yml file.

So, that’s it! Not too bad for a full migration of your content? There is still some tweaks you might want to do to your site, but I suspect that you’ll figure that out (just check the docs, or ask someone).

I hope you got some value out of this guide. If you have any questions or just want to chat about how awesome Jekyll is, comment below, or reach out on twitter.